Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1925 — Page 8
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TARZAN 1 of THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
BEGIN HERE John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. la appointed to a British post in Africa. May, 1888. ho and Lady Alice Rutherford, hia wife, sailed from Dover. During mutiny all officers on the Fuwalda are killed and the Claytons are landed with their belonging* on isolated Jungle shores. Clayton records thslf strange life. A year after their son is born. Lady Alice dies Clayton is killed byjfcerchait, an ape, Kala, a mother ape. steals the Clayton child and drops her own dead babe in the cradle, is rehab flees from the Clayton cabin when a run dischargee and the door springs shut behind him. Kala nurses the white babe, and at ten yean Tan an (meaning white skin) climbs as well as the apes. Tarzan enten the Clayton hut and from pictures in a child's pryner learns that he is a man, a different tribe then the apes, that Sabor IS a lioness, etc. He copies the lettes with pencils found in an old drawer. At 18 he understands nearly all he reads in the many books, but never having seen a human being, cannot speak the English language. He learns to hunt big game with a laeso and his father’s hunting knife. Savages escaping from white officers invade territory near Tarzan’s home and build a village Kulong, eon of King Mbonga. wanders from his tribe and kills Kala with a poisoned arrow. GO ON WITH THE STORY After the first outburst of grief Tarzan controlled himself, and questioning the members of the tribe who had witnessed the killing of Kala he learned all that their meagre vocabulary could vouchsafe him. It was enough, however, for his needs. It told him of strange, hairless, black aps with feathers growing upon its h%ad, who launched death from a slender branch, and then ran, with the fleetnees of Bara, the deer, toward the rising sun. Tarzan waited no longer, but leaping into the branches of the trees sped rapidly through the forest* He knew the windings of the elephant trail along which Kala’s murderer had flown, and so he cut straight through/the jungle to Intercept thd hlack wkrrior who was evidently following the tortuous detours of the trail. At his side was the hunting knife of his unknown sjre, and across his shoulders the coils of his own long rope. In an hour he struck the trail again, and coming to earth examined the soil minutely. In the soft mud on the bank of a tiny rivulet he found footprints such as he alone in all the jimgle had ever made, but much larger than his. His heart beat fast. Could 'it be that he was trailing a MAN—one of his own race? There were two sets of imprints pointing in opposite directions. So his quarry had already passed on bis return along the trail. As he examined the newer spoor a tiny particle of earth toppled from the outer edge of one of the footprints to the bottom of its shallow depression—ah, the trail was very fresh, his prey must have but scarcely passed. Tarzan swung himself to the trees once more, and with swift nolselessness, sped along high above the trail. He had covered barely a mile when he came upon the black warrior standing in a little open space. In his hand was his slender bow to which he had fitted one of his death dealing arrows. Opposite him across the little, clearing stood Horta, the boar, with lowered, head and foam flecked tusks, ready to charge. Tarzan looked with wonder upon the dtrange creature beneath him—so like in form and yet ao different in face and color. -His books had portrayed the negro, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek and hideous thing of ebony, pulsing with life. As the man stood there taut drawn bow Tarzan recognized in him not so much the negro as the Archer of hia picture book— A STANDS FOR ARCHER. How wonderful! Tarzan almost betrayed his presence in the deep excitement of his discovery. But things were commencing to happen below him. The sinewy black arm had drawn the shaft far back; Horta, the boar, was charging, and then the black released the little poisoned arrow, and Tarzan —to build up Weight/
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saw it fly with the quickness of thought and lodge in the bristling neck of the boar. Scarcely had the shaft left his bow ere Kulonga had fitted another to it, but Horta, the boar, was upon him so quickly that he had no time to discharge it. With a bound the black leaped entirely over t.he rushing beast, and, turning with incredible swiftness, planted a second arrow in Horta’s back. Then Kulonga sprang into a nearby tree. Horta wheeled to charge his enemy once more, a dozen steps he took, then he staggered and fell upon his For his muscles stiffened and relaxed convulsively, then he lay still. Kulonga came down from his tree. t With the knife that hung at his side he cut several large pieces from the boar’s body, and In the center of the trail he built a Are, cooking and eating as much as he wanted. The rest he left where It had fallen. Tarzan was an interested spectator. His desire to kill burned fiercely In his wild breast, but his desire to learn was even greater. He would follow this savage creature for a while and know from whence he came. He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside. When Kulonga had finished his repast and disappeared beyond a near turning of the path, Tarzan dropped quietly to the ground. With his knife he severed many strips of meat from Horta’s carcass, but he did not cook them. He had seen Are, but only when Ara, the lightning, had destroyed some great tree. That any creature of the jungle could produce the red-and-yellow fangs which devoured wood and left-nothing but fine dust surprised Tarzan greatly, and why the black warrior had ruined his delicious repast by plunging it into the bllghtingrheat was quite beyond him. Possibly Ara was a friend with whom the archer was sharing his food. But, 4 be that as it may, .Tarzan would not ruin good meat in any such foolish manner, so he gobbled down a great quantity of the i*lw flesh, burying the balance of the carcass beside the trail where he could find It upon his return. And then * Lord Greystoke wiped his greasy fingers upon his naked thighs and took up the trail of Kulonga, the son of Mbonga, the king; while in far-off London another; Lord Greystoke, the younger brother of the real Lord Greystoke’s father, sent back his chops to the club’s chef because they were underdone, and when-he had’finished his repast he dipped his finger-ends into a silver bowl of scented water and dried them upon a piece of snowy damask. All day Tarzan followed Kulonga, hovering above him in the trees like some malign spirit.' Twice more he saw him hurl his arrows of destruction —once at Dango, the hyena, and again at Manu, the monkey. In ’each Instance the animal died almost instantly, for Kulonga‘s poison was very fresh and very deadly. Tarzan thought much on this wonderous method of slaying as he swung slowly along at a safe distance behind his quarry. He knew that alone the tiny prick of the aAow could not so quickly dispatch these wild things of the jungle, who were often tom and and gored in a frightful manner as they fought with their Jungle neighbors, yet as often recovered as not. No there was something mysterious connected with these tiny slivers of wood which could bring death by a mere scratch. He must look Into the matter. That night Kulonga slept fti the crotch of a mighty tree and far above him crouched Tarzan of the Apes. When Kulonga awoke he found that his bow and arrows had disappeared. The black warrior was furious and frightened, but more frightened than furious. He searched the ground below the tree, and he searched the tree above the ground: but there was no sign of either bow or arrows or of the nocturnal marauder, Kulonga was panic-stricken. Hin spear he had hurled at Kala and had not recovered; and, now that his bow and arrows were gone, he was defenseless except for a qjngle knife. His only hope lay In reaching the village of Mbonga as quickly as his legs would carry him. That me was not far from home he was certain, so he took to the trail at a rapid trot. From a great mass of impenetrable foliage a few yards away emerged Tarzan of the Apes to swing quietly inthls wake* Kulonga’s bow and arrdws were securely tied high In the top of a giant tree from which a patch of COLDS THAT DEVELOP INTO PNEUMONIA Chronic coughs and persistent colds lead to serious., trouble. You can stop them now with Creomnlslon, an emulsified creospte that Is pleasant to take. 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bark had been removed by a sharp knife near to the ground, and a branch half cut through and left hanging about fifty feet higher up. Thus Tarzan blazed the forest trails and marked his caches. * As Kulonga continued his journey Tarzan closed up on him until he traveled almost over the black’s head. His rope he now held colled In his right hand; he was almost ready for the kill. The moment was delayed only because Tarzan was anxious to ascertain the black warrior's destination, and presently he was rewarded, for they came suddenly In view of a great clearing, at one end of which lay many strange lairs. Tarzan was directly over Kulonga, as he made the discovery. The forest ended abruptly and beyond lay 200 yards of planted fields between the jungle and the village. Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan’s life-trainlpg left so little space between decision and action, when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between. So it waS that as Kulonga emerged from the shadow of the jungle a slender coll of rope sped sinuously above him from the lowest branch of a mighty tree directly upon the edge of the fields of Mbonga, and ere the king’s son had taken a half dozen steps Into the clearing a quick noose tightened about his neck. So quickly did Tarzan of the Apes drag back his prey that Kulonga’s cry of alarm was throttled in his windpipe. Hand over .hand Tarzan drew the struggling black until he had him hanging by his neck in midair; {hen Tarzan climbed to a larger branch, drawing the still thrashing victim well up into the sheltering verdure of the tree. Here he fastened the rope securely to a stout branch, and then, descending, plunged his hunting knife into Kulonga’s heart. Kala was avenged. Tarzan examined the black minutely, never had he seen any other human being; The knife with lti sheath and belt caught his eye; he apropriated them. A copper anklet also took his fancy, and this ho tranferred to his own leg. He examined and admired the tattooing, on the forehead and breast. He marveled at the sharp, filed teeth. He ihvestigated and appropriated the fathered head-dress, and then he prepared to get down ix> business, for Tarzan of the Apes was hungry, and here was meat; meat of the kill, which Jungle ethics permitted him to eat.
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standards, this ape-man with the heart and head and body o’s an English gentlaman, and the training of a wild beast? Tublat, whom he had hated and who had hated him, he had killed hi fair fight, and yet never had the thought of eating of Tublat’s flesh entered his head. It would have been as revolting to him as is cannibalism to us. But who was Kulonga that he hlght not be eaten as fairly as Horta, the boar, or Bara, the deer? Was he not simply another of the countless wild things of the jungle who preyed upon one another to satisfy the cravings of hunger? Os a sudden, a strange doubt stayed his hand. Had not his books taught him that he was a man? And was not The Archer a man, also? Did men eat men? Alas, he did not know. Why, then, this hesitancy! Once more, he essayed the effort, but of a sudden a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him. He did not understand. All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary Instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mini and saved him from transgressing a world-wide law of whose very existence he was ignorant. Quickly he lowered Kulonga’s body to the ground, removed the noose, and took to the trees again. V Mother’s Policy "Every time I take castor oil, mother puts 6 cents in my money box.” “And when your money box Is full?" "She buys anew bottle of castor oil!" Here is the solution to Saturday’s cross-word puzzle:
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